S.T.A.R.S.--Sharing The Art of Rubber Stamping

Simply Scrappin' Club: Sunny Days Simply Scrappin' Kit

Oh my...it's been THREE weeks since I've posted anything!! YIKES!!  Where has the time gone?  I've just been busy with life, just like the rest of you!  I will do my best to not let that much time elapse again before posting!!

I hope you will enjoy these scrapbook pages we made at my most recent Simply Scrappin' Club.  We used the Sunny Days Simply Scrappin' Kit & had soooo much fun with it!

FYI:  I like to leave the pages we make wide open so there's plenty of room for photos.  More embellishments can be added after photos are placed on the pages.

I was inspired to make these pages from a layout from My Digital Studio.  You can see how I used this layout HERE in my 8x8 book.

For the rest of the pages, I didn't CASE them from any layouts in particular, but rather from lots of different pages.  I was surprised that there were not very many 12x12 pages using the Sunny Days Simply Scrappin' Kit out there in the blogosphere!!

Tried to make the above pages look a little more "masculine"...kind of hard to do with all the pink, flowers & hearts in this kit!!

I hope you enjoyed these SWEET & SIMPLE pages using the Sunny Days Simply Scrappin' Kit!  Erin
 
 
 
 

Petal Party Simply Scrappin' Kit--Club Pages

These are the pages we made for my Simply Scrappin' Club a while back.  We used the Petal Party Simply Scrappin' Kit...we were hoping for more of a "Fall" look, but I'm not so sure we pulled that off.  I still love the pages & can't wait to get my pictures on them!

Once again, I left the pages wide open for photos, journalling & extra embellishments.

This was a complete CASE from some wonderful scrapper, but they didn't watermark their work, so I don't know who to thank.  If this looks familiar to you as your work, please let me know, so I can give you the proper credit.

I was inspired to make the above pages from an online class that I took last year called Got Stamps 101.

I was inspired to make the above set of pages from the book Cherish that I purchased at a local craft store.

I love how using Simply Scrappin' Kits can make for some quick & easy pages!  My hope is that these pages will help you on your quest to get more scrapbooking done in 2010!!  Erin
 
 
 
 
  

Still Trying to Catch Up on Sharing Christmas Fun With You!!

This post will be kind of long because I want to FINALLY share with you the rest of the Christmas Crafting I've been up to.  Just save these ideas into a folder on your computer & you'll be one step ahead for Christmas 2010!!  :)  I'll be showing you the scrapbook pages we made at my December Simply Scrappin'  Club using the Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit PLUS 5 more cards we made using an additional Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit.  Are you ready??

Now, before your procede any further, I want to be sure you understand my mode for teaching a Scrapbooking Class.  Not always knowing what pictures I might want to put on the pages nor those of people I am teaching, I really try to make the pages as wide open as possible, so that we can put as many pictures as we possibly can on each page.  Don't have a bunch of photos, no worries...either enlarge them or fill up the space with additional elements from the Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit or from your own stash or simply add journalling.  Also, as you will see from all my links below, I am also a big believer in not reinventing the wheel.  Yes, it is fun to create something from scratch, but I also like to be inspired by other people & tweak it just a bit.

Also, don't forget that you can click on the pictures to see a larger image.

I CASEd the above layout from stamplaura on Splitcoast Stampers.  To see it, click HERE.

I really liked stamplaura's pages, so this one is from one of her designs, too. To see it, click HERE.

OKay, so the above layout was ALSO inspired from stamplaura's pages, seen HERE, but she was inspired by the cover art on the Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit.

The above layout is what I originally wanted, but if having the title on the sides of the pages are too confusing to you, then all you need to do is rotate the pages!  Voila!  I gleaned this idea from Shanna Jensen, but I could not find her original layout on her blog which is FANTASTIC...you can view it HERE.

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A few months ago, the gals in my Simply Scrappin' Club wanted to get a jump start on Christmas Cards.  We used the Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit like we used in the above scrapbook pages.  We ran out of time to make all the cards at the class, so we still had a few more cards to make.  At our last club meeting, we made the following cards.  If you'd like to see the original cards, go HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.  All cards are 4.25 by 5.5 when closed.

These first three cards were inspired by Andrea Walford's collection of Christmas Jingle Cards, which you can view HERE.  I think I might have come up with the other 2 cards all on my own...gasp!

 

  

I hope you have enjoyed these Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit Cards & Scrapbook Pages.  If you'd like to order your own Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit, CLICK HERE, and then click on the SHOP NOW button in the top right corner under my name & info.  As always, if you have any questions, please leave it in the comment section!!  Happy Stampin' & Scrappin...Erin

Even More Details about My Tour de Freaks Post

The last thing I wanted to show you from the Tour de Freaks Post is the mini album in a tin that I made for my husband for our 15th Wedding Anniversary. 

I made this using one of the Accents & Elements Tins that held my Felt Fusion Flowers, so it's a little thicker than the standard Accents & Elements Tins that you can buy at the Clearance Rack On-line HERE .  Then click on SHOP NOW & then click on CLEARANCE RACK.  I also used the Simply Scrappin' Kit Sunny Days.  I thought it made it a very bright & cheerful mini album!  I used the SIzzix Clear Scallop Square Die for each page.  The white squares are 3 7/8 by 3 7/8.  

Who knows if you really want to see ALL of the pages in the album, but here they are for your viewing pleasure!!

 
 
  

I'm sure that was way more of me & my dear, sweet hubbie than you wanted to see, but I wanted to show you the sweet & simple pages that I made. If you have any questions about this mini album & tin or any of the other projects, please let me know!  Erin
 
 
 

 

Details about My Tour de Freaks Post

Sorry for the delay in posting, but I've been super busy getting things ready for my parents & brother/sister-in-law who are coming for Thanksgiving that I haven't had a moment to get on the computer...whew!  Thanks so much for your wonderful comments on my last post from the recent Tour de Freaks.

For these items I am showing you today I used the Sunny Days Simply Scrappin' Kit!  Using this kit for any project will surely brighten your recipients day!  They only items that didn't come in the kit were the ribbons.

JUMBO CLOTHESPINS

 I love making these Jumbo Clothespins.  It is soooo easy! YOU CAN CLICK HERE to find out how to make these & to see more samples than you probably care to see!  In that post there is also the link to where I purchased these from & a discount code...I think it still works!  What?  There weren't enough clothespins, you need to see more???  Well, okay, CLICK HERE and HERE , I have a few more you might like!!

MINI COMPOSITION NOTEBOOKS & PENS

I was so excited to find these mini composition notebooks at a "Back To School" Clearance Sale a couple of months ago!  I just knew that they would come in handy for a special project.  If you've never made your own composition notebook mini or regular size, don't hesitate any longer.  It's really not that difficult to do.  My best tip is to use Stampin' Up!'s Sticky Strip along the outer edges of the notebook, so that even after it's been crammed in your purse or shoved into your desk it'll still look pretty nice because the edges are really STUCK!  I also use some Stampin' Up! SNAIL adhesive in the center portion of the paper to keep it stuck in the middle.  I typically SNAIL down the ribbon too, so that it doesn't slide around like it's doing in the notebook on the bottom left...oops!  I like decorating my own pens using the Pentel RSVP pens, but since I had these cute Stampin' Up! Pens that coordinated beautifully, I opted to use them instead. 

If you'd like to see more compostion notebooks, you can CLICK HERE and HERE and HERE .

I'll be back soon to tell you more about the Animal Stories Backpack & Card Set!!  Stay tuned...Erin

 

It's Tour de Freak Time!!

I hope you are all having a fabulous time on the Control Freaks "Tour de Freaks"!!  If you are just arriving from Mary Brown's FANTASTIC Blog, you are so very welcome.  If you are starting here, just look through this post & click on the link at the end of the post to go to Dawn Olchefske's Super Creative Blog!  This month's theme is Christmas Gifts!!  So get your paper & pencil ready for some really fun ideas!  If you come back to visit me over the next few days, I'll be adding new posts that got into detail about the items I made, so come on back, ya hear!!

Animal Stories Backpack of Cards--who wouldn't just love to receive some delightful hand-crafted cards in this ultra-cool back pack?? (Obviously I would, because e.b. is ME!!  Tee-hee!)

***On the rest of the projects, I used ONE Sunny Days Simply Scrappin' Kit to make ALL these wonderful projects!!  More details to come later this week!!

Stocking Stuffers and/or Last Minute Gifts--You know there is going to be someone who gives you a Christmas gift & you are standing there empty handed, but then you remember that you created these cool items for just such an occasion!!  Whew!!

Jumbo Clothespins--These are great for displaying a photo, a recipe, or a special card that someone made for you!

Little Compositon Notebooks & Pens---The pens I used here I purchased from Stampin' Up!  They were on sale at Convention this past summer.

Unique Gift for that Certain Special Someone in Your Life--On December 10th, my wonderful husband, Steven, and I will be celebrating our 15th Wedding Anniversary, so I wanted to make him something extra special to honor the occasion!  Here is the tin I altered and a few of the pages I made to go inside.

Remember, if you want to learn more about each project, just keep checking back here over the next couple of days!  

You are going to have so much fun at Dawn's blog...Enjoy the tour!!  Erin Blair

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Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit Cards--Part 3

Here is the last installment of cards that we made from the Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit .

 

Are you sitting down?  I think I actually came up with this card ALL BY MYSELF.  You can tell it's MY design by how complex & difficult it is...tee-hee! ;)  Here is one really cool thing about this card, are you ready:  The polka dotted adhesive die cut strip that is running across the center of the card is actually two small pieces just barely long enough to be covered by the large Sizzix Scallop Circle Bigz. I used the other part of the polka dot strip on the cards below & couldn't bare to cut up the other polka dot strip for it to be covered up by the scallop, so I made do with the 3 3/4 inches worth of left-overs...so how's that for being frugal & creative?? 

 

For the card on the Left, I blatantly CASED Jeanne's beautiful card HERE in the lower right hand corner.  The only thing I did differently was to pull out the red from the polka dot adhesive die cut border strip by using the red holly circle & punching out some real red cardstock for the old olive snowflake.  I also colored the tip of the reindeer's nose with red, but I forgot to use that sample in this photo...grrr!

For the card on the right, I also blatantly CASED "pkburns" HERE.  My only tweaking was to add a little bling in the middle & to stamp a greeting instead of using the border strip!

For these 2 cards the 2nd card was identical to the ones above, so no need to show both of them.

I hope you have enjoyed these cards over the past few days.  It feels soooo good to have 20 Christmas Cards DONE!  I am planning on making some more from the leftovers from the kit & I will be sure to post those for you.  The only extra paper I needed for the cards that I posted were 2 sheets of Very Vanilla Card Stock!  To purchase your Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit & any accessories you might want to go with them, just click HERE. 

Have a super day...Erin

Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit Cards--Part 2

Here's the next installment of the cards we made using the Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit.

  

I gleaned this idea from Jennifer Holiday's blog HERE.  As you can see it's not an "exact" carbon copy & by flipping the DSP around & using a different ribbon, you get a totally different look.

Can you find my mistake in the second card??  I do make mistakes & I decided to just go with it!

I'll give you a hint:  Look at the length of the die cut on the Old Olive cardstock...EEK it doesn't go across the entire length of the card!!  YIKES...I accidentally cut the adhesive die cut too short...OPPS!  I guess I could have just trimmed down the card & no one would have been the wiser!

 

For the card on the Left, I CASED one of "pkburns" cards from HERE .  Although I like the original monochromatic scheme, I thought it needed just a little punching up with the real red snowflake adhesive die cut & Circle and with a little bling from the olive rhinestone brad.

For the card on the Right, I can't seem to find the card that inspired it, but it didn't end up looking much like the original anyway!

For both of these cards, we just duplicated them as is...I made these one's before the inspiration hit that I could just flip the DSP over for a different look.

To purchase the Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit, just go HERE.  If you need Ribbon, just go HERE.  If you have any questions or comments, please leave them in the Comment Section. 

I have a couple more cards to show you tomorrow, so stick around!  Erin

Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit Cards

Here are the first couple of cards we made with the ALL NEW Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit at my Simply Scrappin' Club in August.  We made 2 each of 10 different card designs.  Enjoy!

   

This top card was inspired from Jeanne's beautiful collection of cards that you can find HERE.  I based several of my cards from her set of cards, so you will be going over there quite a bit!

We made 2 cards just like this.  After I made mine, I realized I could have flipped the DSP over to get a little bit different look...oops!

For this card, I CASEd myself HERE which was actually a CASE of Nancy Kliewer's card that you can find HERE .

The other card we did like this used the reverse side of the DSP with the little red dots & I sponged the edges with Old Olive instead of the Real Red shown here.  I'd show it to you, but the card walked off with one of my clubbers...another oops!

 

These cards were inspired by Jeanne's Christmas Jingle Cards once again.  You can find her cards HERE.

  

Do these cards look vaguely familiar??  Hmmm?

Just look at the previous cards above & then turn your head to the left...ah-ha!  It's the same layout, just turned on it's side!  So smart, right??

I'll be posting more cards tomorrow, so please come back...ya hear!   Erin

Happiness is....

 

....20 Christmas Cards COMPLETED in August!!  I know it's September, but I made these at the end of August.  My Simply Scrappin' Club girls decided they wanted to get a head start on Christmas Cards, so we took the BRAND NEW Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit and made 20 cards in one sitting!!  I wanted to make more but time was not on our side!  I am going to make some more from the left overs (there was definitely enough DSP & Adhesive Die Cuts to make more, just need to add more Cardstock) & show them when they come next month.  Stay tuned over the next couple of days & I'll show you what's in my basket!!  Have a super, stampin day!  Erin